Sanitary bottle-lip-protecting device.



W. B. BEGAN. SANITARY BOTTLE LIP PROTECTING DEVICE. APPLIOATION FILED Nov. so, 1908. RENEWED NOV. 8, 1909.

960,842. Patented June 7, 1910.

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ANDREW B. GRAMAM coy. P'nOYwLIIHOGRAPNERS, WASHINGTON D. l;

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SANITARY BOTTLE-LIP-PROTECTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 30, 1908, Serial No. 465,347.

Patented June '7, 1910. Renewed November 8, 1909. Serial No. 526,888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM B. DEGAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Bottle-Lip-Protecting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to produce means for the prevention of an accumulation of dust and disease germs around the mouth or upon the tops of the necks of bottles containing medicines &c. and also to aid in preventing the evaporation or escape of such medicine or other liquid or matter which may be contained in any of said bottles equipped with my present invention.

In the ordinary employment of a bottle for holding a medicine or other matter, a cork (bottle mouth protector) is forced into the mouth or opening in the neck of the bottle to prevent the escape of the contents thereof; as such cork leaves the flange or lip of said bottle mouth exposed to the falling dirt, dust and disease germs which soon form an unsanitary mass which is ultimately washed away (by pouring out a dose of the medicine) and taken into the human system where the said germs may cause a complication of diseases which will end in death.

To eliminate the dangerous and unsanitary conditions above set forth, I have devised a sanitary bottle, mouth and lip protector which device is provided with a flange which extends outwardly from the bottle mouth and beyond the outer edge of the lip thereof and preferably downwardly from' the upper edge or surface of said lip.

To more fully understand my invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a diagrammatic side view of the neck and a portion of the body of a bottle and also a sanitary bottle mouth and lip protector. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic plan view of Fig. 1 when the bottle mouth and lip protector is removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section of the upper part of Fig. 1. In Fig. 4 I have shown a plan View of the bottle lip protector part with the bottle mouth protector part removed. Fig. 5 is a view of the underside of Fig. 4.

Referring now to Fig. 1, the part 2 is the neck of a bottle; 3 is the bottle mouth protector part (or stopper) 4 is the bottle lip protector part; 5 is one of the depressions which is caused by the dies when they produce the corrugations .or projections G, (3 and shown in Fig. 5.

In Fig. 2 the hole 7 is the mouth of the bottle; 8 is the lip of the bottle; 9 is the edge of the said lip over which the lip protector part 4 projects and preferably surrounds (as 10, Figs. 1, and 3).

In Figs. 4 and 5, the holes 7 7 "-(in the bottle lip rotector part) are a little larger than hole 7 in Fig 2, this permits a tapering cork or bottle mouth protector to be employed as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The edge of said hole 7 cuts into the cork (when the latter is forced into the bottle) and thereby obtains a grip by which the cork and the flange or lip protector are held together. The contacts or corrugations 66 &c. projectfrom the under surface of said flange or protector 4, and when in use, rest upon the upper surface of the bottle lip and thus preventing a large portion of the bottle lip protector from coming in contact with the surface of the bottle, since if the full surface of the lip protector comes in contact with the bottle a small amount of the contents of the bottle might come in contact with the said two surfaces and cause them to stick together.

The part 3 may be made of cork or any other suitable material; the part 4 may be composed of cardboard, or any other suitable material. Each part is preferably composed of a slightly elastic material so that a change in the size of one of the bottle mouth protector parts will automatically change the size of the hole of the lip protecting part through which the said mouth protector part passes. The aforesaid corrugations 6&0. are preferably made small and with a very small contact surface.

There should be suflicient grip between Having described my invention I do not 119 limit said invention to the details herein set .iorth.

I claim:

1. A device for maintaining a sanitary condition around the mouth or on the lip of a bottle; said device embracing a bottlemouth stopper, a flange in engagement therewith only at a point outside of the bottle-mouth and extending outwardly from said stopper to a point near the outer edge of said lip and a series of horizontal corrugations forming part of said flange or lip protector and permitting only a small contact connection between said bottle lip and said flange.

2. A device for maintaining a sanitary condition around the mouth and lip of a bottle; said device embracing a bottle mouth stopper, a flange in engagement therewith outside the bottle-mouth only and extending outwardly and downwardly, from said stopper, to a point beyond and below the upper outer edge of said lip, and projections underneath said flange for permitting a very small contact between the said flange and said bottle lip.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this day of Nov. 24th A. D. 1908.

WILLIAM BUTLER DEGAN.

WVitnesses HENRY SEGALL, B. STEIN. 

